#Fiber optics

The record was accomplished with a fiber-optic infrastructure, that stretched out to more than 1,864 miles (3,000km). The research team used four "cores" which are glass tubes housed within the fibers that transmit data. These light streams are then processed and amplified by new kinds of fiber amplifiers doped in thulium and erbium. The plus side to this is that regular optical fiber infrastructures can support these types of speeds, but with modifications. Converge has just announced that its fiber network has now reached over 500,000 kilometers. In a report to the NTC, Converge has said that it has laid down over 523,000 kilometers of fiber nationwide, more than double from last year where they rolled out 260,000 kilometers of total fiber assets. The current fiber cable kilometers of the company consists of 403,740 kilometers of last-mile network ando ver 119,000 kilometers of fiber backbone which include its domestic subsea cable system. Converge was the first to deploy 400G data transmission capacity on its metro backbone which was further doubled to 800G, boosting the fiber network’s capacity to push huge amounts of data throughout the length of the cable, in anticipation of the use of next-generation, hyperscale capacity applications. Read more in our articles including "Japan achieves 319 Tbps internet speed, breaks world record" and "Converge network reaches over 500,000km".